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Forget second acts. Jim Owen, who turns 80 on Oct. 20, is capitalizing on his third. His new documentary film, The Art of Aging Well,is the culmination of what he describes as his purpose and his legacy: Inspiring older adults to become healthier and more active.

Were experiencing a health care crisis that no one talks about, and its not the second wave of the pandemic: We are a nation of couch potatoes, and its literally killing us, says Owen, who lives in San Diego.

The film ran on Wyoming PBS,airs on Rocky Mountain PBS on Sept. 24 and will be available to PBS member stations through the National Educational Telecommunications Association starting Oct. 31.

He had read that if you live to age 70, youd likely live another 15 years. With no desire to spend those years in pain with no energy, he vowed to get in shape.

In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers predicted that nearly half of Americans will be obese by 2030. Owen adds that health experts have long known that being physically fit substantially reduces the risk of serious chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and most of us have much more control over the aging process than we think.

Owen firmly believes that how we age is largely up to us: While we cant help getting older, we dont have to get old.

Growing up in Lexington, Ky., Owen played recreational football, basketball and baseball, and lifted weights, too, all in the shadow of his older brother, a star athlete. But after graduating from college, he spent the next 30-plus years doing no exercise at all as he built a successful investment career on Wall Street, including publishing the bestselling book, The Prudent Investors Guide to Hedge Funds.

I got lucky; I was blessed and had a very rewarding career. But anyone can make money; its much harder to make a difference, says Owen, who reinvented himself in 2003 as a motivational speaker and author of Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn From the Code of the West.

I dont wear a cowboy hat and Im kind of afraid of horses, he admits. But to me, the mythical cowboy was a construct: Every culture needs heroes, and when I grew up, cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were mine.

Owens advice about business and life sparked a movement, leading to two subsequent Cowboy Ethics business books, the launch of the Center for Cowboy Ethics and Leadership nonprofit and hundreds of speaking engagements per year. It was while he crisscrossed the country on a whirlwind speaking tour in 2006 that Owen realized how weak, stiff, achy and tired he felt all the time.

The tipping point came when Owen watched a video of himself on his 70th birthday, looking haggard and pale. He had read that if you live to age 70, youd likely live another 15 years. With no desire to spend those years in pain with no energy, he vowed to get in shape.

Applying the same determination that worked during his Wall Street days, Owen slowly took control of his health, beginning with daily 10-minute walks. Working with a professional trainer, he added on strength-building exercises and began eating healthier.

Many older adults worry theyll get hurt by starting an exercise plan, and Owen discovered there are no shortcuts. He had briefly taken up running at 50 and injured both knees. After switching to weightlifting, he bench-pressed too much weight and was left with searing lower back pain that kept him up at night.

The older you are, the more safety has to be the number one priority, and that means listening to your body, says Owen, noting theres a fine line between getting out of your comfort zone, progressing and going overboard.

Dont get overly ambitious, particularly if youre older. Just chip away at it, and all the sudden youll look back and say, I cant believe how far Ive come, he says

Owens persistence was validated when, at 75, his primary care physician pronounced him in excellent shape for a 65-year-old. His body was now a decade younger than his actual age.

Exercise has enlarged my view of the world. Getting fit is incredibly empowering: If someone says, Youll never do this, I say, Watch me. Im not that coordinated, so if I can do it, anybody can do it, Owen says.

Most people think that the hard work and subsequent payoff from regular exercise is physical. But for Owen, the mental aspect has been the most daunting and the most rewarding.

Id guess that eighty percent of people who go to the gym are going because somebody their doctor or their spouse told them to. Thats not motivational, so you do it in a half-hearted way, he explains. My motivation was getting rid of aches and pains, but the life-transforming thing came after five years, when I changed my mindset from working out to training. Thats really when you make big strides. Exercise has really boosted my confidence.

I want to be lean, and its not vanity. If I do get hit with COVID-19, a stroke or a heart attack, I believe Ive done everything I can do to weather it.

In addition to three strength workouts a week, Owen walks, stretchesand does yoga, Pilates and movement classes, often alongside his wife Stanya. He is pain-free, and weighs less than he did in high school.

I work on my weaknesses, not my strengths. Most people only work on their strengths; you see guys doing bicep curls or tricep extensions. You dont need to do that stuff. Try doing push-ups. I hate push-ups, but thats why you should do them. When I started, it took almost a week before I could do one. Today, I can do fifty; Im in the best shape of my life.

Breaking a sweat inspired Owen to raise awareness about the power of being physically active.

His 2017 book Just Move! A New Approach to Fitness After 50 named one of the years best books on healthy aging by The Wall Street Journal chronicled his new-found passion for healthy living and provided a step-by-step program that could be adapted to any level of ability.

I know it sounds corny, but I strive to become a role model, Owen says. Not a week goes by where I dont get emails or phone calls from people who say, Mr. Owen, youve changed my life, or You changed my father or mothers life. Its fascinating to me, because theres no lack of information out there, but thats not the answer. Both my book and the documentary are a call to action.

Produced by Owen and directed by Jim Havey, The Art of Aging Wells overall message emphasizes that its never too late or too difficult to become healthier. Over the past two years, Owens team gathered powerful success stories of individuals who overcame obstacles to find health through exercise later in life.

The 30-minute film also features practical tips and perspectives from leading wellness experts across the country who believe prevention should be our primary health care strategy.

Everybody we talked to wanted to be part of this to share their experience, and I want these stories to change the world, says Owen, who plans to produce more films about healthy aging. This is not a business for me; I wouldnt work this hard for money. Its just really fun.

The pandemic has brought a sense of urgency to Owens work, and he hopes that living in the COVID-19-era has been a wake-up call to many older adults as they realize they can reduce the risks to their health.

Hes convinced that staying active and having a positive, youthful attitude builds up resilience to face any health crisis, should it present itself.

I want to be lean, and its not vanity, Owen says. If I do get hit with COVID-19, a stroke or a heart attack, I believe Ive done everything I can do to weather it.

Owen continues to take on big challenges, and says healthy living has given him a sense of purpose that motivates him every day.

Many people my age sort of give up on life; I dont, he says. I used to think that life inevitably goes downhill once you hit seventy or seventy-five. Now, I feel my best days may still lie ahead.

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During the streaming, a small group of Airmen who are recipients of the Gift an Airman registration will also be running their selected race with social distancing in place.

This is the Air Force Marathon so we wanted to still find a way to show our appreciation to our young junior Airmen and the sacrifices that they have made to serve our country, said Hough. In a show of support, some of our senior leadership have also decided to run alongside the Airmen.

The Air Force Marathons Health and Fitness Expo is also ongoing virtually and during the streaming some vendors may be conducting live streams demonstrating their products and interacting with viewers.

The virtual expo has many of the vendors who would have been physically at the expo, said Jasmine Redman, Air Force Marathon special events coordinator. At the expo participants can still learn about the new products in health, fitness and nutrition and vendors will be offering items on sale and special discount codes for their products and services so be sure to check out each vendor booth.

The Health and Fitness Expo is free and open the public and will be available until Sept. 30. Viewers can search for specific companies or browse the virtual booths to see what each vendor has to offer.

To watch the AF Marathon live events, go to the Air Force Marathon Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AirForceMarathon and to access the Health and Fitness Expo, go to https://www.usafmarathon.com/virtual-expo/

For the latest on the Air Force Marathon, go to https://www.usafmarathon.com/ or follow the Air Force Marathon Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AirForceMarathon/.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Self Esteem Brands (SEB), the parent company of Anytime Fitness, Basecamp Fitness, The Bar Method and Waxing the City, today announced a partnership with Dr. David Katz, the globally-recognized authority on lifestyle medicine, to amplify the critical role fitness plays in the personal health and wellness of humans around the world.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Katz will join the voices of SEB and Anytime Fitness to articulate the role of fitness as essential to personal health and wellness, and how it comes to life through the Anytime Fitness brand experience.

"We are grateful to have so many people around the world who trust Anytime Fitness to help them achieve their fitness and wellness goals," said Stacy Anderson, president, Anytime Fitness. "As we expand our services to include personal health coaching and wellness programs, we are delighted to work with Dr. Katz to engage our current and future members to discover more about the ways fitness and exercise are in fact lifestyle medicine ways to fight disease and risk factors, and ensure they enjoy healthier, more active lives."

Specifically, Dr. Katz will provide expert advice, education and support to Anytime Fitness on a variety of ways to engage its 4 million members across 5,000 locations in nearly 40 countries through programs, content, coaching and more in ways that create meaningful changes to their health and wellness lifestyle behaviors. He will also join SEB co-founders Chuck Runyon and David Mortensen as their advocacy work continues to ensure fitness is recognized as an essential, health-related service that helps people lower their risks of obesity, disease, depression and other factors that marginalize their quality of life.

"I am proud and delighted to join forces with Anytime Fitness and Self Esteem Brands to advance the proposition that lifestyle is the best medicine for adding years to lives, and life to years," Katz said."The Anytime vision of fitness is about athletic performance, of course, but extends to so much more.Their commitment to that broader vision, and their wide reach, represents great promise to the entire field of health promotion."

"There is a new normal for the fitness industry the long game is a bet on health and wellness, and COVID-19 has shown that we need to place a stronger emphasis on that bet," Runyon said. "We can and should fight disease and pandemics with healthy lifestyles, and fitness is at the center of that fight. Our mission is to improve the self-esteem of the world, and we look forward to working with Dr. Katz to help more people than ever embrace fitness as lifestyle medicine."

About David L. Katz,MD, MPH,FACPM, FACP, FACLMDr. David L. Katz is a Preventive Medicine specialist and globally recognized authority on lifestyle medicine. He is the founding director of Yale University'sYale-Griffin Prevention Research Center(1998-2019); past president of theAmerican College of Lifestyle Medicine; president and founder of the non-profitTrue Health Initiative; and founder and CEO ofDiet ID, Inc.Katz is a Fellow of theAmerican College of Preventive Medicine; theAmerican College of Physicians; theAmerican College of Lifestyle Medicine; andMorse College, Yale University. He earned his BA atDartmouth College; his MD at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine; his MPH from theYale University School of Public Health; and completed sequential residencies in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Public Health, earning Board certification in both disciplines.Learn more about Dr. Katz at https://davidkatzmd.com/.

About Anytime FitnessAnytime Fitness is the fastest-growing gym franchise in the world, averaging 300 new gyms per year while serving 4,000,000 members at 5,000 gyms and is the only franchise of any kind to have locations on all seven continents. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Anytime Fitness prides itself on providing its members with convenient fitness options and friendly, personal service in well-maintained facilities that feature top-quality exercise equipment. Anytime Fitness gyms are now open in nearly 40 countries. All franchised gyms are individually owned and operated and features the "Anywhere Access" policy which allows members access to any Anytime Fitness gym worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.anytimefitness.com.

About Self Esteem BrandsOur purpose is to improve the self-esteem of the world. Self Esteem Brands (SEB) is the parent company of Anytime Fitness (the world's largest fitness franchise), Basecamp Fitness, The Bar Method and Waxing the City. Combined, most of our more than 4,700 franchise locations are locally operated across 30 countries worldwide by independent, small business owners. SEB is also the parent company to affiliates Provision Security Solutions and Healthy Contributions. Leading with a high-performance culture anchored in the values of people, purpose, profits and play, plus a charitable focus through its HeartFirst Foundation, SEB seeks to enrich the lives of all who interact with our brands and businesses. Our vision is a world of self-esteem, for every human to rise from their challenges. For more information on Self Esteem Brands, please visithttps://www.sebrands.com/.

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Two new sister businesses, Unique Health & Fitness and Unique Smoothies, recently opened in the month of August to offer those with special needs a place to call their own.

The term Unique references those with special needs; Autism, Downs, Cerebral Palsy, Brain & Spinal Cord injuries, ect. The Unique mission is to improve the quality of life of Unique Individuals through Health & Fitness, Meaningful Employment, and Community Involvement.

Unique Health & Fitness, located at 3366 Verot School Road, provides an adaptive and inclusive Health and Fitness facility that the Unique Population can call their home. They offer a fun and engaging workout with trainers who carefully guide each member into being healthier & happier overall. All unique individuals get expert coaching & programming in strength, weight loss, coordination, balance, & cardiovascular fitness. As well as nutrition, social, and emotional intelligence coaching. On top of that, members enjoy the community, friendship, fellowship, & support from those around them.

Unique Smoothies, the sister company, is a pop up that provides meaningful employment opportunities to Unique Individuals through Smoothies and Smiles. You can find Unique Smoothies around Lafayette in their Uniquely designed smoothie trailer.

For more information on Unique Health & Fitness and to find out where to get a smoothie, follow their social media pages at https://facebook.com/UniqueHealthFitnessLafayette/ and https://www.facebook.com/UniqueSmoothiesLafayette/

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Fitbit and Garmin are two of the biggest names in the fitness tracker and smartwatch business. Especially if you care about keeping a closer eye on your health and fitness.

Garmin has been around longer, making sports watches that over time have evolved to behave more like smartwatches in recent years. So you can start paying your way or listening to music without having your phone nearby.

Fitbit arrived on the scene after Garmin and started with fitness trackers before adding smartwatches to its collection of wearables. Fitness tracking remains at the core of what it does, but its now exploring how it can better monitor your health and activities like running and swimming.

Both offer a variety of different models and options, making it hard to work out which one is actually the best fit for you. Thats why weve pulled together this guide to help make that decision an easier one, picking out the biggest differences in the hardware, software and features that these two wearable heavyweights have to offer.

Garmin launched its first Forerunner watch back in the early 2000s and since then its added a range of lines including its Vivoactive and Fenix watches. All have sports tracking at the core, offering a range of different designs and mix of features.

Some of the most popular models are:

Battery life

One of the staples of Garmins fitness trackers and watches is the promise to deliver big battery life. Whether you go for something cheap like the Vivofit fitness tracker or something high end like the Forerunner 945, Garmin will generally offer close to a week of battery life and in many instances longer.

It also takes into great consideration that using features like GPS or heart rate monitoring while tracking an activity can greatly reduce battery. So watches like its outdoor-centric Fenix series include an UltraTrac battery mode to give you more tracking time while reducing the rate it records data like GPS. Youll also find new power saving and battery modes that switch off power hungry features you dont regularly use to retain battery for the features you do use.

On the Venu, Garmins most smartwatch-like device, its the only device in its collection that features a colour AMOLED display that can be used in an always-on mode. It still manages multiple days of battery life, despite using a more power-hungry display technology than the transflective display technology Garmin uses on the majority of its other watches.

Fitness features

We think its fair to say that when it comes to what Garmins watches and fitness trackers can actually monitor, there is a lot. Those feature sets vary across devices and ranges, but many of the core features run across the ranges to offer a more consistent and familiar experience.

So from Vivosmart to Fenix, youre going to get 24/7 activity tracking, continuous heart rate monitoring and sleep monitoring. Youll also get some of Garmins more motivational fitness tracking features like Move IQ and adaptive step counts that are designed to keep you moving during the day in subtle but very meaningful ways. You can also find features like stress monitoring, guided breathing exercises, womens health tracking and Garmins Body Battery monitor. This looks at metrics like sleep and heart rate to determine the energy levels you have for the day.

When it comes to sports tracking, this is really where Garmins devices excel. It covers core sports like running, cycling and swimming (pool and open water), offering a host of rich metrics you can delve into during or after activities.

When youre willing to spend more on watches like the Fenix or Forerunner 945, youll also start to see sports profiles for more outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, climbing or even paddleboarding. These more niche pursuits still offer a rich set of activity-specific metrics. Youll also find features like mapping and navigation to make them more useful when youre out exploring.

Heart rate drives many of Garmins features that seek to get you thinking more about your training and recovery as well as measure effort levels during exercise. In most instances, Garmin will let you pair up an external chest strap, if you question the reliability and accuracy of the sensor baked into its wrist-worn devices.

Smartwatch features

While Garmins watches and trackers are predominantly designed for sport and fitness, they do now behave better as smartwatches.

Most if not all work with both Android devices and iPhones, and will offer core features like being able to view notifications, check the time and weather and sync data to Garmins Connect app.

When you decide to pay more for something like the Forerunner 245 or Fenix, youll get more in the way of smartwatch features. That includes payments, and a built-in music player. The latter lets you pile on your own music or playlists from the likes of Spotify and Deezer. That includes storing them offline so you dont need to be connected to your phone to listen to them.

If you care about apps, most of Garmins watches with the right amount of storage also have access to the Connect IQ store. This is where you can find apps, watch faces, data fields and widgets. That Connect IQ support can vary. So the Forerunner 45 is compatible, but will only let you download watch faces. Pricier Forerunners though will give you full access.

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Fitbits first wearable was a pedometer-style device that centred on counting steps and tracking your sleep.

Since then, its added new sensors, designs and moved into the smartwatch space to rival Apple, Samsung and Googles legion of Wear OS watches.

It still cares about tracking your fitness, but it can now do a better impression as a watch and offers a rich array of connected features that make it worthy of a place on your wrist.

The key members of the Fitbit family are:

Battery life

Even from its early tracker days, Fitbit has sought to promise close to a weeks worth of battery life. Years later, that hasnt changed and it has even made good progress dealing with the fact that full fat smartwatches still have a battery problem.

Its latest Versa 3 and Sense watches promise up to 6+ days, which is impressive when you consider the kind of display and features the watches have to power. Its Inspire 2 and Charge 4 fitness trackers also promise to comfortably last a week between charges. The Inspire 2 actually promises to go for 10 days, which is the longest battery life a Fitbit wearable has been capable of.

Adding always-on display modes to its latest smartwatches will impact on battery life just like it does on Apple and Samsungs watches. It might be a big reason why Fitbit is introducing a new fast charging feature that gives you a day battery from a 12-minute charge.

Fitness features

Fitness tracking is really how Fitbit made its name and it underpins every device its launched or is in the process of launching.

Every Fitbit will track your steps, monitor your heart rate 24/7, monitor sleep and buzz you with inactivity alerts during the day. Those sleep features are some of the richest available on a wearable platform digging deep into insights and offering additional metrics fuelled by monitoring heart rate during the night.

More recently, its added menstrual health tracking with some data viewable on its smartwatches. Youll get guided breathing exercises and its new Sense watch can even indicate your bodys response to stress.

When you want to look beyond steps and sleep, most Fitbits are equipped to track a range of sports. It offers automatic activity recognition when you dont want to manually tell your device youre about to go running and swimming.

The Charge 4, Versa and Sense now offer built-in GPS to make mapping outdoor activities easier to do and you have Fitbits PurePulse heart rate sensor to unlock training in heart rate zones and features like Active Zone Minutes and Intensity Maps. Fitbits watches and Charge 4 flagship tracker also track your swimming, though currently only works for pool swimming only.

Fitbit users also have access to its Premium platform, where you can find programs and workouts you can follow and gain deeper data insights from the sensors on board their watch and tracker.

Smartwatch features

On Fitbits fitness trackers, it did its best to offer smartwatch-style features. Given the screen and design limitations, it was always going to be difficult to go beyond things like basic notification support.

That has changed significantly since it entered the smartwatch space and the likes of the Versa and Sense can do more when youre not sweating it out in the gym.

Fitbits wearables work with Android and iPhones giving you features like notifications, payments, apps, watch faces and built-in music players. Its latest smartwatches also add smart assistant support for Amazons Alexa with Google Assistant support to follow.

The experience using a Fitbit with an Android phone or iPhone is largely consistent, though features like responding to notifications for example is an Android-only feature.

Like Garmin, you have access to an app store here too. Fitbits App Gallery is still growing as a platform, but does include some high profile names like MySwimPro and Spotify. The latter though will only let you control the streaming service, not pile on offline playlists like you can on the Garmin. If you like watch faces, Fitbit offers plenty of variety here too and you can keep up to 5 faces on its smartwatches at one time.

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So, do you go with Fitbit or Garmin? As weve said, there are a lot of different devices to choose from on both sides and all offer varying features and looks.

The decision between the two platforms we think comes down to a few areas that might sway you one way over the other.

If you care largely about fitness tracking as opposed to recording runs or hikes, Fitbit still feels like it offers a better experience here. Its devices and companion app are easy to use and it still offers the richest most useful sleep tracking you can find on a wearable. For beginners, its a much better fit. Fitbit also offers more cutting-edge sensors geared towards serious health monitoring with its ECG and skin temperature sensor that now appears on its new Sense watch.

If you spend more time tracking sport and yearn for masses of data and battery life when youre on the move, Garmins watches and trackers in general will serve you better. They offer reliable tracking and the ability to add external sensors means you can improve accuracy and the amount of metrics you can record.

Outside of tracking, both offer plenty. Garmin has some desirable features that you wont find on a Fitbit. Like proper Spotify support and useful safety and assistance features. Fitbit though has that smart assistant support if thats something you value having on a watch.

The decision between these two big names in the wearable world really comes down to what you value most. They both now offer very accomplished devices that impress on both hardware and software fronts. Its clear though that they excel in different departments and we hope weve helped you establish just what those are to help guide your decision.

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Boutique gyms and group fitness facilities partnered up to pressure Mayor Bill de Blasio to permit the restart of group fitness in New York City.

"Fitness classes are usually 10 people per class and are built for social distancing, as each member has their own equipment during the workout," the complaint reads. "If tanning salons, tattoo parlors, gyms, schools, indoor gymnastics, casinos, mass transit, piercing stations and spas are allowed to open, fit, yoga, pilates, barre and other fitness boutique studios should also be allowed to open."

Amanda Freeman, CEO and founder of SLT short for Strengthen Lengthen Tone which is part of the Boutique Fitness Alliance, said it was a "punch in the gut" when she found out group fitness classes couldn't resume in New York City.

"It's a bit of what I like to say 'a head-scratcher' of why gyms can open and boutique fitness can't. It's very frustrating," Freeman said. "We can be controlled, safe, and very careful, even more so than a gym."

"That is one thing that we've learned coming out of this; that we need to always stay united and we need representation," Freeman said. "It's very nice to see that we are talking and saying, 'What's good for you is good for me,' rather than fighting over a specific client."

Separate from the lawsuit, Boutique Fitness Alliances has also argued that the city's differing policies for gyms and group fitness classes are sexist. According to data from the International Health Racquet & Sportsclub Association, multipurpose gym facilities tend to attract more men, whereas boutique fitness studios are the reverse. Women make up roughly 78 percent of members at boutique fitness studios. Plus, fitness studios are more likely to be owned and staffed by women, according to the IHRSA.

"The decisions being made by men are unintentionally harming the women," Freeman said.

Her own company, SLT, has studios in six states on the East Coast. All 26 of them closed down in mid-March. Only the New York City studios remain completely closed.

In the open studios, like in Southampton on Long Island, SLT has taken pains to ensure staff and client safety. To prepare for reopening, staff installed vinyl dividers between the Megaformer machines they use, removed machines to ensure adequate social distancing, removed or altered high touch surfaces like cubbies and benches, installed compliant air filtration systems, and enforce mask-wearing during the workouts much to the chagrin of students.

"I kept adjusting it and trying to fix it. The mask was the worst part," said Victoria Winner, an SLT veteran at the Southampton location who has taken more than 300 classes.

Although SLT devotees seem eager to return to the reopened studios, and Freeman said students have been receptive to new, online class offerings, she said the ongoing closures have taken a huge toll on her business.

"The pandemic has been brutal for my business," she said. "Our New York City studios do make up 80 percent of our revenue, so having those closed for six months has been devastating."

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BATON ROUGE - As Louisiana continues to move through Phase 3 of its reopening process, the office of Parks and Recreation in East Baton Rouge Parish (BREC) initiated the start of its Phase 3 reopening plan on Monday, September 21.

According to BREC's website, the organization is reopening certain locations in harmony with CDC, state, and local guidelines to ensure the safety of all guests and staff members.

While some BREC facilities, such as Liberty Lagoon and all indoor playgrounds and interactive rooms, will remain closed until further notice, BREC fitness centers are scheduled to reopen Tuesday, September 22.

BREC's website notes that in addition to setting up signs encouraging cleanliness and COVID-related safety precautions, officials will require that anyone entering a BREC building wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth.

Additional guidelines and new procedures to ward off the spread of novel coronavirus are detailed below.

-Only facilities able to comply with CDC, state, and local guidelines will be opened to the public with modified operations in accordance with those guidelines.

-Signs promoting physical distancing and hygiene placed throughout the park system to remind and encourage the public.

-Cash transactions are discouraged.

-Employees are required to practice good hygiene (washing hands regularly, wearing PPE, etc.); maintain physical distance from others; and selfquarantine if showing symptoms.

-Where possible and feasible, teleworking is encouraged.

-Where applicable and possible, employees will return to work in phases.

-Managers are strongly encouraged to consider special accommodations for personnel who are members of vulnerable populations.

-Meetings with the public should be held remotely using technology.

-All employees are encouraged to have work-related discussions via remote mediums where possible.

-Employees are required to wear masks or cloth face coverings when being near or interacting with others.

-Anyone entering a building will be required to wear a cloth face covering, especially when interacting with others (exceptions permitted for employees behind transparent barriers).

-Everyone entering an indoor facility must have their temperature taken. Anyone with a fever, as defined by the CDC, will not be permitted into a building.

-Prior to entrance indoors, all employees must complete and comply with a COVID-19 questionnaire.

-Sanitation protocols have been developed in accordance with the CDCs Reopening Guidance for Cleaning and Disinfecting Public Spaces, Workplaces, Businesses, Schools, and Homes published April 28, 2020, and departments will comply with protocols specific to their areas. Janitorial services and cleaning of frequently touched surfaces will be increased.

-Hand sanitizer has been and will continue to be placed throughout the park system and facilities for public use

A general list of BREC facilities and their reopening status is listed below.

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Six months into the pandemic, Ive developed a new gymless fitness routine that is, under the circumstances, reasonably robust. My husband and I bought a Peloton bike. I do at-home strength-training workouts with dumbbells, and Ive tried to get used to jogging with a mask on. Ive been doing yoga, which has allowed me to tell myself that while I may have put on a few pounds Ive never been more flexible. Ive grown especially used to exercising with an onscreen instructor who cant see me, which means I can shout as many obscenities as I like without bothering anyone (a habit that has made it hard for me to adjust to the occasional outdoor group workouts that friends have invited me to).

Im not alone in all this change. The pandemic is altering how Americans approach fitness in ways that are being felt throughout the economy. Some companies, like gyms and athletic-apparel manufacturers, are struggling. Others, like makers of at-home workout equipment and providers of online fitness services, are thriving. Here are six fitness categories that are taking over or falling apart thanks to the pandemic.

Peloton announced it generated $607 million in revenue in the quarter that ended June 30, up 172 percent from the same quarter last year. The company doubled its membership base and also reported that average usage per subscriber doubled Peloton subscribers (which can be households) completed an average of 24.7 workouts per month, up from 12 in the same period last year. In a bid to attract more members, the company recently cut the price of its base-level bike from $2,245 to $1,895. Its no surprise that Pelotons offline competitors are moving into the online space: Barrys Bootcamp offers at-home classes starting every 15 minutes, gyms like Equinox are streaming classes online, and Lululemon acquired the home-fitness brand Mirror in July for $500 million.

With Governor Cuomos blessing, gyms in New York City have finally reopened, and I returned to mine on September 10 for my first gym workout in six months. It was weird no showers, no group fitness classes, masks on at all times, reservations required. This also means I paid my gym-membership dues for the first time in six months, a choice many members will pass on given the reduced amenities and the new routines they formed during the shutdown. The pandemic has already pushed three major gym companies Golds Gym, 24 Hour Fitness, and Town Sports International, owner of New York Sports Clubs into bankruptcy Group-fitness studios are in an even tougher spot, with a business model that seems almost designed to spread respiratory viruses. But one thing going for them is the overall weakness of retail landlords have reason to work with their nonpaying fitness tenants, because whos going to take over their spaces if theyre evicted?

Dicks Sporting Goods had a blockbuster quarter ending August 1, with sales 20 percent higher than last year as customers stocked up on goods for working out at home or outdoorsnot just fitness equipment like weights but also bicycles, kayaks, and camping gear. In some of these categories, inventory can barely keep up. The flow of product we have is kind of going out as fast as its coming in, CEO Ed Stack told investors last month. You could get around the dumbbell shortage by shopping on the secondary market, but you had to pay: Dumbbells from Rogue cost about $1.25 per pound if theyre in stock (good luck), but I paid over $2 per pound on eBay this summer.

Of course, if you cant find dumbbells at a reasonable price, one option is to work out without them. Barrys Bootcamp is offering online classes with standard weights, resistance bands, or just bodyweight for at-home customers with different preferences and different setups. Peloton also offers bodyweight strength classes to subscribers. And if youve spent time this summer in New York City parks, youve probably seen some people hauling their kettlebells with them, while others opt for doing burpees and push-ups in the grass. I was always a bodyweight/calisthenics kind of person, said Alex Dropo, a freelance personal trainer who added that hes had success moving his clients online because their workouts can be done outside a gym. Other benefits of the pandemic for his business: no time spent commuting to meet clients and fewer clients who want to work out at 6 a.m. before going to the office.

Golf is slow and expensive, and participation in the sport has been declining steadily for more than a decade. But this year, you may have trouble getting a tee time. Americans played 20 percent more rounds of golf this July than over the same period last year, according to data from the National Golf Foundation. One club in Minnesota, Golden Valley, reports that it has booked 22,000 rounds of golf so far this year 4,000 more than it had at this time in 2019. Unlike many sports, golf is adaptable to social distancing. Golf-equipment sales have been another bright spot for Dicks, which owns the Golf Galaxy retail chain. A number of young people have come into the game because theyre not playing football or soccer or other sports, said Stack. Acushnet Holdings, which owns the golf-equipment brand Titleist, reported a sharp drop in sales in April and May but has since seen a rebound, with June sales 25 percent above last years levels.

Many Americans are now wearing sweatpants and gym shorts all day, but that doesnt necessarily mean theyve been buying sports apparel. After all, if youre exercising at home, is it really that important that you look good while you do it? Adidas reported a North American sales decline of 38 percent in the spring quarter, while Under Armour sales were down 45 percent in North America. And delayed sporting events like the Euro 2020 soccer tournament and the Tokyo Olympics have posed even greater challenges for manufacturers. With stores open again, these companies have survived the sales disaster of the spring. But Adidas CFO Harm Ohlmeyer warned investors that reopening alone wont be enough to reclaim profits he expects that elevated unemployment will be a drag on sales for as long as it persists. That said, Lululemon has fared better than its competitors so far: Sales in stores fell by half, but online sales rose 155 percent.

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Huami has announced the newest addition to its lineup of Amazfit smartwatch fitness trackers, which are generally less expensive than popular counterparts from Garmin and Fitbit. The Amazfit Band 5 has typical fitness tracker features, such as a pedometer and heart-rate monitor, plus more advanced offerings like a blood oxygen saturation monitor and Amazon Alexa functions, all for $45.

There are a sampling of Huami-branded features that take a high-tech approach to health management. The watchs BioTracker 2 heart rate monitor audits your resting heart rate and heart rate zones, and will alert you when your heart rate gets too high, according to a statement from Huami. OxygenBeats measures your blood oxygen saturation. The PAI, or Personal Activity Intelligence Assessment System, will interpret your daily heart rate into a score you can use to determine how much activity you need to stay healthy. When used with Bluetooth and power-saving technologies, Huami says the watch can last 15 days between charges.

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